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dustmote

dustmote is the alternative form of dust mote.

Meaning of dust mote

Noun

dust mote (plural dust motes)

  1. A mote or speck of dust.
    • With time running out, the complex compass he had first imagined was jettisoned in favor of a simpler, more achievable effect: artisans at Digital Domain added digital particles to previously shot footage, making the images emitting from the clockwork mechanism look as if they were composed of...2007 December 9, Ron Magid, “Effects go with the flow to keep ‘Compass’ on course”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the...

Forms of dustmote

pluraldustmotes

Questions about dustmote

What is dustmote the alternative form of?
Dustmote is the alternative form of dust mote.

Words near dustmote in the dictionary

  1. dustmat
  2. dustmats
  3. dustmen
  4. dustmite
  5. dustmites
  6. dustmote
  7. dustmotes
  8. dustnado
  9. dustnadoes
  10. dustoff
  11. dustoffs

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